Redbook Thinks It Sucks To Be a Woman

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:01:57 +0100

I opine that to get the loans from creditors you must have a firm reason. However, once I have received a bank loan, just because I was willing to buy a house. - MollieHolmes35

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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:44:02 +0100

Bwahah, love the mock magazine cover. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm feeling irrational, I have to go cry in the bathroom, eat a tub of icecream and scream at my boyfriend. Waahhhh - Tash

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:23:46 +0100

Holy crap! I reviewed Flow for Bust. Redbook is really flying their women-hating flag high. I hope its readers take notice and put the magazine down for good. And I love how 250 pages = a tome. Read much Redbook editors? - razoriffic

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:15:47 +0100

Because women tend not to be self deprecating enough? Well thank you Redbook for validating some of our all time favorite negative core beliefs and insecurities. Imagine if even half of the mainstream magazines for women were actually [i]for[/i] women... Superficially speaking, you kind of have to question a magazine that insults the intelligence of it's readers enough to suggest turning the television of as one of their number one ways to spice a couple's sex life. - Jennifer June

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:14:40 +0100

I love that cover you did!!! I got an idea "Redbook: Keeping Women in the kitchen and bitching on them since 1901" - Toongrrl

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:12:50 +0100

There's nothing worse than a non-review. You get the impression that Redbook's writers neither read Flow, nor actually road-tested Lunapads. How does one REview without actually having viewed in the first place? I wish I'd known about the Lunapad review when Chella and I put the Bledbook spoof together: we'd have given them a shout-out on there! Your friendly Bledbook Covergirl - Sarah Thomasin

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:04:29 +0100

Sadly this is not the first time RedBook has dissed periods. I was totally un-surprised to hear about their latest woman-hating antics. The gals at Lunapads HQ experienced a very similar snub earlier this year. Check it: http://blog.lunapads.com/2009/02/is-red-yucky-in-your-book/ - Morgan

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:26:07 +0100

I, for one, have seen FLOW and I know it to be well researched, entertaining, and downright informative. As the mother of a young girl, I hope to be able to enlighten her. Actually, Redbook (or "BledBook" -- well done!!!) just highlights exactly why a book like this needs to be out there. The stigma and embarrassment that has followed every woman as she's hidden her "sanitary napkin" purchase in with as much other stuff as possible at the drugstore MUST be dispelled and a book like FLOW will help to do just that. And I'll be "snubbing" Redbook from now on! - Heather

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:22:24 +0100

Awesome - love it! Redbook - what a pathetic response - nothing like 'empowering' your readers! - Patrice

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:53:59 +0100

Yikes! Sorry for the unclosed HTML tag! - Elizabeth Kissling

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:53:06 +0100

We haven't read FLOW yet at re:Cycling, but we look forward to seeing it, and to seeing BUST's take on it in the upcoming issue. We were disappointed in Redbook's review, too, since their readers are clearly in need of menstrual education - just a few pages after this review, there's an article about all those things you're afraid to ask your doctor about: you know, all that stuff DOWN THERE. We're also big fans of Chella Quint's work, and pleased to see her on the pages (screens?) of BUST. If you can't get enough period talk, please visit us re:Cycling, the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. We've got lots to say about all aspects of the menstrual cycle, throughout the life cycle! - Elizabeth Kissling

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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:17:12 +0100
I'm so glad someone wrote the history book on this subject. Our cultural attitude towards a woman's finite nest of eggs and their monthly demise (if not intercepted by the squiggle) has always struck me as unhealthily hostile. There are other perspectives out there in print besides popular culture myths and memes. I especially hope single dads with daughters educate themselves on this important topic. Fecundity doesn't last forever. Every period is worthy of note. - Tuesday Mccormick

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:16:41 +0100
Redbook is lame, but I was really surprised at their negative review. I've seen the galleys of this book and it's really informative, entertaining and yes, fun! While I dont think its something that needs to be discussed at the dinner table, it's good to talk about this stuff, see how others deal etc., it is important for women not to be so uptight about their bodies. - Laurie

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:34 +0100
Now, I'm not a huge fan of my period, but I certainly don't consider it a curse. - KT

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:55 +0100
well, I , for one, am cancelling MY subscription... - Snowwhite

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:46:57 +0100
I love how at Bust we compare the smell of our periods. we love that shit. - Bette